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During REACT Phase II LCC will develop an end-to-end autonomous system to extract many types of attributes for all types of events from large amounts of unstructured text with state-of-the-art accuracy, with the overall goal of making sure this information is structured in a way that can easily be used by human analysts or by other intelligence applications.

Autonomous vehicles are becoming more and more integral to our nation's defense. There is a desire to increase the autonomy of these vehicles and enable humans to delegate those tasks that are more effectively done by computer. Achieving this will require

Significant energy is required to operate and maintain the extensive U.S. military mission around the world. This equates to significant costs to the country. Smart power microgrids have proven to significantly increase efficiency, as well as enable the u

Nanohmics Inc. (Austin, TX), in collaboration with Prof. Dimitrios Sounas at Wayne State University (Detroit, MI), propose to continue the development of a new form of time-modulated circulators, with low loss, broad bandwidth, high isolation, and the additional advantage of full autonomy. In Phase I of the program, we explored two approaches for the design of magnet-less circulators. The first on ...

Devices with non-reciprocal functionalities are crucial for wireless communications, radar/imaging systems and for the growing field of quantum computing. Traditionally, these functionalities are achieved using ferrite materials biased by an external magnetic field. Unfortunately, such materials face significant challenges: they are scarcely available, and they are not compatible with existing sem ...

The proliferation of wireless and satellite-to-satellite communications makes the phased-array antenna approach the most attractive due to its agility and accuracy in angular scanning and its security in operation.In this program, Radiant Research, Inc. (RRI) proposes a drastically new compact detector switch waveguide true-time-delay line (TTD) module that offers improved performance at reduced c ...

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Due to the limited amount of rhenium present in the earths crust (approximately 1-2 part per billion) there is a significant benefit to be realized in recovering for reuse the rhenium from scrap material, spent catalysts, or end-of-life superalloys. Rhenium is found in molybdenum-copper porphyry deposits. If rhenium is present in ore that is processed, it will show up in the resulting molybdenum ...

The Army has a need for a power source enclosed in a box for monitoring the health of munitions in storage for extended periods of time of 10 or more years unattended while delivering power intermittently over that storage period with enough power tomonitor the munition health at army-required extreme ambient storage conditions. A trade study in Phase I identified some potential chemistries suitab ...

OmniSite BioDiagnostics (OmniSite) proposes to continue development of DNAaptamers to early ice crystal nuclei by Systematic Evolution of Ligands byEXponential enrichment (SELEX), which will be used to prevent damage tohuman red blood cells (RBCs) during lyophilization, thereby increasing the shelflife of blood intended for military casaulties. In Phase I, OmniSite demonstratedthat rare DNA aptam ...